Auteur principal			Co-auteurs(s)
Nom :	MS YUAN YUAN		Nom :
Courriel :	yuan@mail.nhltc.edu.tw		Courriel :
Institution ou compagnie:	National Hualien Teachers College		Nom :
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Ville :	Hsinchu		Nom :
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Pays :	Taiwan		Nom :
Type de présentation:	Conférence :  25 minutes.		Courriel :
Conférence et numéro :	ACDCA ,    Numéro : A20		Horaire :   Local :	dimanche, 11h30   1302
Site Internet :	http://inforscience.nctu.edu.tw
Titre de la communication :	Integrating writing and technology into mathematical learning
Résumé de la communication :
The purpose of this study was to design writing materials and if appropriate manipulating software were developed to help high school students explore the writing works. An experimental design was also used to study its effect on high school students’ understanding of mathematics. A virtual classroom was created on the web (inforscience.nctu.edu.tw) so that students in the experimental group could type their answers and submitted their works to. When students completed submitting their works to the destined site, the teacher gave feedbacks and graded the assignments on the web. Ten writing works were assigned to the students in the experimental group during the study semester. The experimental group did perform better than the control group on the achievement test at a significant level (*P<05). More discussions occurred among students. However, the amounts written by students were small. Students prefer to solve the problems by writing short answers to respond to the writing works, and few used their own words to explain their reasoning process. The researcher also suggested that having preservice teachers participate in this writing activity may help them understand students’ reasoning processes as well as students’ learning difficulties. School teachers with this help may be more willing to the use of writing as a learning tool in their mathematical classrooms.